I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is hell.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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